Almeda T. Hersom (b. Bryant) (1838-1904) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and died in Acushnet, Massachusetts. By 1860 she was living in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where she worked in a chocolate mill. In 1862 she married Thomas S. Hersom, a soap manufacturer, in Randolph, Massachusetts, and they settled in Acushnet. In 1887 James E. Brierly, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students who was a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in New Bedford, ordered a subscription to The Christian Science Journal and several of Eddy's published pamphlets on Hersom's behalf.

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